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Elon Musk is probably going to live on Mars.
That is, if he does not die first: something that is highly probable, given how risky the journey will be. And if he does not die on the way to the red planet, he could easily die when he gets there.
If he and his comrades can reach Mars and survive, life will be a difficult prospect, he said. It will be a lot of work and very little leisure time, he said, with the great chance that you might die from the hostile environment of Mars before you start having fun.
1/30 Land of the ISS
From the International Space Station, flight engineer Terry W. Virts of Expedition 42 took this photo of the Gulf of Mexico and the United States Gulf Coast at sunset.
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2/30 Icy slopes of Mars
This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted ravines on a hillside facing south inside a crater. The image was taken by NASA's HiRISE camera, which is mounted on its Mars Reconaissance Orbiter
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3/30 Orion capsule splashes down
Orion's capsule gushed into space before returning a few hours later – having proved that it can be used one day to transport humans to Mars.
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4/30 The launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M rocket
The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, November 24, 2014, carrying three new astronauts to the International Space Station. He also took caviar, ready for the inhabitants of the satellite to celebrate the holidays
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5/30 Space Yellowstone
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone through his Twitter account.
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6/30 Black Hole Friday
NASA celebrated Black Friday staring into space – sharing photos of black holes
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7/30 NuSTAR
X-rays drip from the sun in this image, showing observations of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, superimposed on a photo taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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8/30 Saturn
This near infrared colored image shows a specular reflection, or sunglint, outside a lake of hydrocarbons called Kivu Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan
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9/30 Words aside
Although Mimas and Pandora, shown here, both orbit Saturn, they are very different moons. Pandora, "small" by the moon's standards (50 miles or 81 kilometers in diameter) is elongated and irregularly shaped. Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers in diameter), a "medium-sized" moon, formed in a sphere due to the self-imposed gravity by its highest mass
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10/30 Solar explosion
A solar flare of class X1.6 flashes in the middle of the sun in this image taken on September 10, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
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11/30 Solar explosion
An image of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a 200,000-mile solar filament ripping the solar corona in September 2013
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12/30 Cassiopeia A c
A fake colored image of Cassiopeia A, made up of data from the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray observatory
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13/30 Great Magellanic Cloud Galaxy
An image of the Great Magellanic Cloud Galaxy seen in infrared light by the Herschel Space Observatory. Regions of space like this are where new stars are born of a mixture of elements and cosmic dust
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14/30 Spirit of Mars Rover
NASA's Mars Rover Spirit took the first picture of Spirit, as communication problems began a week earlier. The image shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack
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15/30 Morning dawn from space station
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captures this photograph of the green lights of the dawn of the International Space Station
16/30 Launching History – Making the STS-41G Mission in 1984
The Space Shuttle Challenger launches from Florida at dawn. In this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first US woman to make a space walk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. The seven-person crew was the largest to fly in a spacecraft at the time, and the STS-41G was the first flight to include two astronauts
17/30 A new perspective on an extraordinary cluster of galaxies
Clusters of galaxies are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerates of galaxies, hot gas and dark matter and represent the largest structures of the Universe united by gravity
18/30 Remnant Supernova Nebula Veil
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed in striking detail a small section of the Veil Nebula – expanding the remains of a massive star that exploded some 8,000 years ago
19/30 Hubble sees a galactic sunflower
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the Messier 63 galaxy, seen here in an image of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, recalls the pattern in the center of a sunflower
20/30 A Cosmic Hubble Couple
The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 – more commonly known as WR 124 – and the nebula M1-67 surrounding it
21/30 Image of Pluto
Four images from the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this improved color vision of Pluto.
22/30 Fresh crater near the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars
The HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has acquired this close-up image of a "fresh" impact crater (on a geological scale, though quite ancient on a human scale) in the Sirenum Fossae region on Mars. This impact crater seems relatively recent as it has a sharp edge and well preserved ejection
23/30 Observations of the Earth of Gemini IV in 1965
This photograph of the Strait of Florida and the Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during orbit n. 19 in 1965. The Gemini IV crew conducted scientific experiments, including Earth time and terrain photography, for the remainder of their four-day mission after Ed White's historic space walk on June 3.
24/30 NASA celebrates 50 years of space walk
For 50 years, NASA has "adapted" to the space walk. In this 1984 photo of the first free spacewalk, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless is in the midst of the first "field" test of a nitrogen-powered backpack device called the Maneuvered Drive Unit (MMU)
25/30 Hubble lurks the most populous place in the Milky Way
This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the Arcs Cluster, the densest stellar cluster in the Milky Way
26/30 The vision of an astronaut from space
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo of the International Space Station on September 2, 2014
27/30 Giant Landform on Mars
On Mars, we can see four classes of sandy shapes formed by the wind, or eolytic forms: ripples, transverse winding chains, dunes and what is called "draa".
28/30 Expedition 39 Landing
A sokol helmet can be seen against the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule window shortly after the spacecraft landed with Expedition Command 39 Koichi Wakata of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Engineer of Flight Rick Mastracchio from NASA near the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
29/30 Large red spot of Jupiter seen by Voyager I
30/30 Chandra observatory sees a heart in the dark
1/30 Land of the ISS
From the International Space Station, flight engineer Terry W. Virts of Expedition 42 took this photo of the Gulf of Mexico and the United States Gulf Coast at sunset.
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2/30 Icy slopes of Mars
This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted ravines on a hillside facing south inside a crater. The image was taken by NASA's HiRISE camera, which is mounted on its Mars Reconaissance Orbiter
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3/30 Orion capsule splashes down
Orion's capsule gushed into space before returning a few hours later – having proved that it can be used one day to transport humans to Mars.
Nasa
4/30 The launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M rocket
The Soyuz TMA-15M rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, November 24, 2014, carrying three new astronauts to the International Space Station. He also took caviar, ready for the inhabitants of the satellite to celebrate the holidays
Nasa
5/30 Space Yellowstone
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone through his Twitter account.
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6/30 Black Hole Friday
NASA celebrated Black Friday staring into space – sharing photos of black holes
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7/30 NuSTAR
X-rays drip from the sun in this image, showing observations of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, superimposed on a photo taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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8/30 Saturn
This near infrared colored image shows a specular reflection, or sunglint, outside a lake of hydrocarbons called Kivu Lacus on Saturn's moon Titan
Nasa
9/30 Words aside
Although Mimas and Pandora, shown here, both orbit Saturn, they are very different moons. Pandora, "small" by the moon's standards (50 miles or 81 kilometers in diameter) is elongated and irregularly shaped. Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers in diameter), a "medium-sized" moon, formed in a sphere due to the self-imposed gravity by its highest mass
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10/30 Solar explosion
A solar flare of class X1.6 flashes in the middle of the sun in this image taken on September 10, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
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11/30 Solar explosion
An image of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a 200,000-mile solar filament ripping the solar corona in September 2013
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12/30 Cassiopeia A c
A fake colored image of Cassiopeia A, made up of data from the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray observatory
Nasa
13/30 Great Magellanic Cloud Galaxy
An image of the Great Magellanic Cloud Galaxy seen in infrared light by the Herschel Space Observatory. Regions of space like this are where new stars are born of a mixture of elements and cosmic dust
Nasa
14/30 Spirit of Mars Rover
NASA's Mars Rover Spirit took the first picture of Spirit, as communication problems began a week earlier. The image shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack
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15/30 Morning dawn from space station
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captures this photograph of the green lights of the dawn of the International Space Station
16/30 Launching History – Making the STS-41G Mission in 1984
The Space Shuttle Challenger launches from Florida at dawn. In this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first US woman to make a space walk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. The seven-person crew was the largest to fly in a spacecraft at the time, and the STS-41G was the first flight to include two astronauts
17/30 A new perspective on an extraordinary cluster of galaxies
Clusters of galaxies are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerates of galaxies, hot gas and dark matter and represent the largest structures of the Universe united by gravity
18/30 Remnant Supernova Nebula Veil
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed in striking detail a small section of the Veil Nebula – expanding the remains of a massive star that exploded some 8,000 years ago
19/30 Hubble sees a galactic sunflower
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the Messier 63 galaxy, seen here in an image of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, recalls the pattern in the center of a sunflower
20/30 A Cosmic Hubble Couple
The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 – more commonly known as WR 124 – and the nebula M1-67 surrounding it
21/30 Image of Pluto
Four images from the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this improved color vision of Pluto.
22/30 Fresh crater near the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars
The HiRISE camera, aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has acquired this close-up image of a "fresh" impact crater (on a geological scale, though quite ancient on a human scale) in the Sirenum Fossae region on Mars. This impact crater seems relatively recent as it has a sharp edge and well preserved ejection
23/30 Observations of the Earth of Gemini IV in 1965
This photograph of the Strait of Florida and the Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during orbit n. 19 in 1965. The Gemini IV crew conducted scientific experiments, including Earth time and terrain photography, for the remainder of their four-day mission after Ed White's historic space walk on June 3.
24/30 NASA celebrates 50 years of space walk
For 50 years, NASA has "adapted" to the space walk. In this 1984 photo of the first free spacewalk, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless is in the midst of the first "field" test of a nitrogen-powered backpack device called the Maneuvered Drive Unit (MMU)
25/30 Hubble lurks the most populous place in the Milky Way
This image from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope features the Arcs Cluster, the densest stellar cluster in the Milky Way
26/30 The vision of an astronaut from space
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo of the International Space Station on September 2, 2014
27/30 Giant Landform on Mars
On Mars, we can see four classes of sandy shapes formed by the wind, or eolytic forms: ripples, transverse winding chains, dunes and what is called "draa".
28/30 Expedition 39 Landing
A sokol helmet can be seen against the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule window shortly after the spacecraft landed with Expedition Command 39 Koichi Wakata of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Engineer of Flight Rick Mastracchio from NASA near the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
29/30 Large red spot of Jupiter seen by Voyager I
30/30 Chandra observatory sees a heart in the dark
Those were the predictions that the head of SpaceX and Tesla did when asked in a new interview about their plans to live on the red planet. Mr. Musk's rocket business is gearing up for manned trips to Mars in the coming years, hoping to make them relatively easily available.
"You're 47," Mr. Musk was invited as part of an interview for Axios' new show on HBO. "How likely is it that you personally go to Mars?"
"70%," he replied immediately. "We recently made a lot of progress that I'm really excited about."
He went on to explain that he was "talking about moving there" and that the price of the trip might in the end be only a few hundred thousand dollars.
Pressed if he was working to build an "escape hatch for rich people," he said the journey would be much harder than it would be on our own planet.
"His likelihood of dying on Mars is much greater than dying on Earth," he said, comparing it to Shackleton's trip to Antarctica.
"It will be difficult, there is a good chance of death, get into a small can through deep space," he said. "You could land successfully, once you land successfully, you will be working nonstop to build the base. So there is not much time for leisure.
"And once you get there, even after doing all of that, it's a very tough environment, so there's a good chance you'll die there. think You can come back, but we are not sure. Now does this sound like an outlet for wealthy people? "
Despite everything he said, he would "no hesitation" go to live on the planet, once SpaceX makes it possible.
"There are a lot of people who climb mountains," he said. "People die on Mount Everest all the time. They like to do that for the challenge."
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